Can project-based learning help close the achievement gap? New research focused on young elementary schoolers suggests that a well-designed and well-taught project-based-learning curriculum can ...

“Naysayers may think that project-based learning is progressive and it’s chasing butterflies in the backyard,” said Kristin De Vivo, executive director of Lucas Education Research, a unit of the Lucas ...

The foundation, created by the famous filmmaker, works to improve K-12 education and recently released research showing that project-based learning can be extremely effective. Four studies ...

“Kids go in-depth into a topic they’re interested in and they research it, and then they do a formal presentation to an outside audience about what they learned,” Darwish said. The surging interest in ...

Research suggests that repeated exposure to high-impact practices such as project-based learning is the answer. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has featured a project-based curriculum for ...

Students on the project-based learning teams miss school less frequently ... said students thrive when given choices about what to research for their projects and how to present their learning.

Orson and Larson’s research includes three reframing strategies teachers ... As students are first starting project-based learning, they usually don’t anticipate possible obstacles, write Orson and ...

One important aspect of preparation is project-based learning. It’s easy to do, but hard to do well. It’s increasingly aided by powerful research, production and collaboration tools and ...

and that independent research can give students a false sense of understanding. One survey of undergraduate students who took a project-based learning course found that some found the challenge ...